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But why… Oh, why is he flashing the “peace sign” on his boat off the coast of Maine? Oh wait… No he’s not flashing the “peace sign”… It seems he caught 2 little fishies in the big blue sea.

No matter to Bush that public opinion of his Iraq War is at an all time low and the American public doesn’t believe that the “surge” is working. Bush still managed to eek out a whine and beg the American public to have patience “as U.S. forces conduct stepped-up operations in Iraq.”

“We’re still at the beginning of this offensive, but we’re seeing some hopeful signs,” Bush said in his weekly radio address, in which he likened U.S. troops deployed around the globe to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

“We’re engaging the enemy, and killing or capturing hundreds,” said Bush, who is losing GOP support for his decision in January to send 30,000 extra troops to Iraq to secure Baghdad and Anbar.